WHY DO YOU DO IT? WHAT DRIVES YOU?
Cold-blooded revenge, and a sense of martyrdom – sadism and masochism.
WHAT IS ONE THING YOU DO FOR SANITY MAINTENANCE?
English comic novels, especially Evelyn Waugh.
WHAT IS THE SCRAPPIEST THING YOU’VE DONE TO MAKE OR SAVE $$?
Marry an heiress.
YOUR TASK IS TO PRESCRIBE ONE BOOK OR FILM TO THE COLLECTIVE FOR MANDATORY CONSUMPTION. WHAT IS IT?
Book: THE JAKARTA METHOD by Vincent Bevins
Film: WALKABOUT by Nicolas Roeg
MOST USEFUL FAILURE?
The Surrealist movement.
SELECTED Q FROM THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE: Who are your favorite prose authors?
Laurence Sterne, Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Joris-Karl Huysmans, H.P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Clarice Lispector (a highly abridged list).
WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON?
Forging connections with the neo-Gothic literary avant-garde in the Indian subcontinent, particularly the Maldives.
DISCIPLINE OR ANARCHY?
Discipline.
